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Home loans
The issue will be more with the bank. If you claim this was a gift, it might be mortgage fraud if you require repayment. If you disclose it was a loan, the bank making the mortgage on the new home might worry about their ability to repay the mortgage. Make sure you are transparent with the lender.
For IRS purposes, the IRS requires that "loans" be made in a businesslike manner, including charging interest, even to family. If you don't charge interest, you must report "imputed interest income" -- taxable interest income on your tax return equal to the amount of interest your borrower would have paid at the relevant federal minimum interest rate. That rate is less than 2% right now, so the interest on $200,000 for 14 days would be less than $153.